I recovered these old photos using Internet Archive Wayback Machine from old websites of mine over the years. Enjoy the journey, Josen
One of my first bamboo flutes which would’ve been back in 2001 or 2002 when I was around sixteen years old (photo is from back then too, can you tell). I harvested the bamboo for this in Florida where I was living at the time.Here’s my old yaki-in ‘hippy-like’ freehand pyrography signature from back in 2007, NYC.and by the thumb-holeThis is a 2.1 B Jinashi I crafted back in 2007 and is still a favorite shakuhachi for Brian Purdy of HarpGear.com
I believe this is the root end of the above shakuhachi 2.1 B, 2007, NYCThe bottom of the root end of the 2.1 Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYCI think this is the utaguchi for the 2.1 Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYCNot sure on the length of this Jinashi shakuhachi I crafted but had a nice curve to it, 2007, NYC
The root end of the above Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYCUnconventional curvature on this Jinashi shakuhachi I made but nonetheless pretty bamboo, 2007, NYCI believe this is the root end for the above shakuhachi, 2007, NYCAnother of the root end, 2007, NYC
Yet another of the root end, 2007, NYCA care kit I used to offer with my shakuhachi, 2007. NYCA shakuhachi I made from black bamboo back in 2007, NYCAnd an above root black bamboo shakuhachi, 2007, NYC
Looks like a big wide bore hocchiku shakuhachi above root end that I made next to a root end for comparison, 2007, NYCThe same hocchiku shakuhachi by itself, 2007, NYCAn average size above root end shakuhachi, 2007, NYCNice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYC
Nice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYCNice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYC2.4 goma shakuhachi root end, 2012, NC3.1 shakuhachi root end shot goma bamboo, 2012, NC
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